Burma/Myanmar: What Everyone Needs to Know(r)

by David I. Steinberg

Book Overview

No country in Asia in recent years has undergone so massive a political shift in so short a time as Myanmar. Until recently, the former British colony had one of the most secretive, corrupt, and repressive regimes on the planet, a country where Nobel Peace Prize laureate Aung San Suu Kyi was held in continual house arrest and human rights were denied to nearly all. Yet events in Myanmar since the elections of November 2010 have profoundly altered...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 019998168X
• ISBN13: 9780199981687
• Release Date: June 2013
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 1.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.4" x 8.2"